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“I'm a global ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and United for Wildlife and I am also a Unicef UK ambassador. It's important to me to support charities. I never want to take my wealth for granted.”

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Author:Andy Murray

“There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.”

Ifs World Way Trade Corruption Customers Illegal Wildlife

Author:Jane Goodall

“We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying local economies, and funding armed insurgencies and terrorist syndicates. If we do not find solutions to this crisis now, there will be little habitat left beyond sparse areas of national parks that will serve as glorified zoos to small pockets of remaining animals.”

“For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.”

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Author:David Jeremiah Barron

“In addition to tourism, it is essential to employ other ways to benefit more from the use of natural resources than from their destruction - from wildlife breeding operations to - yes - hunting of abundant species where viable.”

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Author:David Jeremiah Barron

“I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.”

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Author:Jeff Corwin

“I love people who have died trying to save wildlife. When I see that passion, that gives me hope.”

People Giving Trying Passion Give Me Died Wildlife

Author:Jeff Corwin

“I am passionate about making sure that we collectively and proactively preserve all of the world's most iconic coastal and oceanic wild places - those keystone ecosystems that are irreplaceable, breathtakingly beautiful refuges for fish and other marine wildlife.”

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Author:Serge Dedina

“There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.”

Opportunity Sea Sweet Late Killing Spots Too Late Wildlife Sharks Before It's Too Late

Author:Sylvia Earle

“It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate.”

Helping Responsibility Climate Wildlife

Author:Nikhil Advani

“We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level. It is affecting not only the security of the national parks, it is affecting the people in communities that live around the national parks. In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.”

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Author:Veronika Varekova

“In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.”

World Stills Astonishing Wildlife Remnants

Author:Patrick Bergin

“A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.”

Ifs Bigs Stuff Wildlife Small Stuff Big Stuff

Author:Patrick Bergin

“There's no space for wildlife; the humans are crowding them out.”

Humans Space Wildlife

Author:Patrick Bergin

“We are all consumers of wildlife. We may not realize it but there's probably something in your home or something you own that came from wildlife.”

May Home Realizing Consumers Wildlife

Author:Allen Crawford

“I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.”

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Author:Tom Gruber

“As I stood, I took in a last breath of spring-scented air, listened to the birdsong, and then saw a member of wildlife the conservationists hadn't planned on reviving in this place. A perv in a white shirt and polyester pants. A standard hide-in-the-bushes-and-whack-it perv. Fat and balding, it was as appealing as watching a giant marshmallow go at it.”

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Author:Rob Thurman

“I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.”

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Author:Asa Butterfield

“I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on NPR that the whole lemmings thing was faked in the 1950s. They were shooting a wildlife documentary in the '50s, they found a group of lemmings, and the crew chased them all off a cliff. No lemming has ever jumped off a cliff, purposefully, ever. Isn't that unbelievable?”

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Author:Cassandra Peterson

“We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.”

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Author:Sylvia Earle

“Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.”

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Author:Sylvia Earle

“The territorial body has been polluted by roads, elevators, etc. Similarly, our animal body starts being polluted. Ecology no longer deals with water, flora, wildlife and air only. It deals with the body itself as well. It is comparable with an invasion: technology is invading our body because of miniaturisation.”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.”

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Author:Paul Saffo

“When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.”

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Author:Taylor Lautner

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

“The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.”

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Author:Dan Lipinski

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

“I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.”

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Author:Little Richard

“I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.”

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Author:Ricky Schroder

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

“Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.”

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Author:David Suzuki

“I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.”

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Author:Candice Swanepoel

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”

Source: 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”

“I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!”

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Author:Betty White

“I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

“Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.”

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Author:Thom Yorke

“I have a love for astronomy; Aruna, my wife, and I love travelling, so whenever we get an opportunity, we set off to explore places that have tickled our interest. We are also wildlife enthusiasts.”

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Author:Viswanathan Anand

“I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.”

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Author:Viswanathan Anand

“The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.”

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

“If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.”

People Ifs Want Humans Teach Share Touched Wildlife

Author:Steve Irwin

“My job, my mission, the reason I’ve been put onto this planet, is to save wildlife. And I thank you for comin’ with me. Yeah, let’s get 'em!”

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Author:Steve Irwin

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.”

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Author:Rebecca Solnit

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Source: Silent Spring

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”

“There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3

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